Mental Health Assistant Manager, Correctional Health Services

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NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the nation. We are a network of 11 hospitals, trauma centers, neighborhood health centers, nursing homes, post-acute care centers, and correctional health services. We are a home care agency and a health plan, Metro Plus. Our health system provides essential services to 1.4 million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city's five boroughs.

Our diverse workforce of more than 42,000 employees are uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers.

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the nation. We are a network of 11 hospitals, trauma centers, neighborhood health centers, nursing homes, post-acute care centers, and correctional health services. We are a home care agency and a health plan, Metro Plus. Our health system provides essential services to 1.4 million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city's five boroughs.

Our diverse workforce of more than 42,000 employees are uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services is one of the nation’s leading correctional health care systems in quality of and innovations to care, and access from pre-arraignment through compassionate release. In-jail services include medical, nursing, mental health, substance use treatment, social work, dental and vision care, discharge planning, and reentry support. In addition to providing direct patient care in the jails, CHS leverages the resources of the nation’s largest municipal health care system to help discharged patients successfully return to their communities.

CHS is also a pivotal partner in New York City’s criminal justice reform efforts.

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the nation. We are a network of 11 hospitals, trauma centers, neighborhood health centers, nursing homes, and post-acute care centers. We are a home care agency and a health plan, Metro Plus. Our health system provides essential services to 1.4 million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city's five boroughs.

Our diverse workforce of more than 42,000 employees are uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible. Visit us  and stay connected on  or Twitter@hhcnyc.

The Mental Health Assistant Manager (MHAM) is a full-time position based on Rikers Island, each directly reporting to a Director or Deputy Director of Mental Health. The MHAM will assist in supporting Directors and Deputy Directors in the provision of administrative oversight and monitoring of staff providing mental health services in assigned therapeutic housing units (THU) and General Population. THUs include the Program for Accelerated Clinical Effectiveness (PACE), Mental Observation (MO), Supportive Transitional Engagement Program Units (STEP), and Groups for Addictions Treatment Enhancement Units (GATE) units, as well as other specialty THUs.

Mental Health teams delivering care on Mental Health THUs include Mental Health Treatment Aides, Treatment Aide Programming Specialists, Mental Health Clinicians, Psychiatric Providers, and Creative Arts Therapists. Under the supervision of their assigned Director or Deputy Director, the MHAM will provide administrative supervisory support of the above staff. They will also work in collaboration with facility-based supervisors including Treatment Aide Supervisors, Senior MHCs, Clinical Supervisors, Supervising Psychiatrists, and other managers.

• Assist the Directors, Deputy Directors, and facility leadership in their management of staff, including but not limited to addressing staff timeliness and attendance, or staff failure to follow established workflows and protocols.
• Coordinate and track the completion of therapeutic programming by Mental Health Staff.
• Utilize departmental reports to collect and analyze data needed as a basis for administrative and management decisions.
• Assist with quality assurance and quality improvement initiatives as…